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A 29-year-old Rapid City man was sentenced Tuesday for threatening an OST officer with a knife as he was returning home to his apartment in Rapid City.

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An SDPB investigation shows most drivers who are not legally intoxicated and accidentally kill pedestrians avoid felonies and jail time.

However harsher punishment for fatal crashes doesn’t always result in fewer pedestrian fatalities.

From the crash itself to the political fallout after, the Ravnsborg-Boever saga has pitted Republican lawmakers against one another.

Jason Ravnsborg, 45, killed Joseph Boever, 55, on September 12, 2020 in a hit-and-run and told investigators he thought he hit a deer.

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded no contest on Aug. 26 to a pair of misdemeanor traffic charges over a crash last year that killed a

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg left the scene of a crash that killed Joseph Boever in Sept. 2020 Ravnsborg thought he had hit a deer.

Jason Ravnsborg, the states top law enforcement officer, said in a statement that he plans to remain in office despite calls for him to resign.

A spokesman said Jason R. Ravnsborg did not plan to resign over the misdemeanor charges, despite calls from both sides of the aisle for him to do so.